Sync and manage your templates to a directory

sync_kde_templates.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

# Dynamically create desktop entries in templates folder by reading all files
# from a source directory. It will add and overwrite desktop-files in
# templates folder and remove them, if no matching template from source
# directory is found.

import sys
import pathlib
import textwrap

# USER SETTINGS

# The source directory to save your template files. These files are the ones
# you end up copying when creating new file from template.
# Example: '~/My Templates'
USER_TEMPLATE_DIR = ''

# The folder where KDE 5 Plasma will save the template settings files, which
# are required to generate the menu "create new..."  entry in Dolphin.
# Example: '~/.local/share/templates'
KDE_DESKTOP_DIR = '~/.local/share/templates'

# END OF USER SETTINGS


def get_new_desktop_content(template_file, template_name=None):

    if not template_name:
        template_name = template_file.stem
    new_desktop_content = (
        f'''
        [Desktop Entry]
        Name={template_name}...
        Comment=Filename fore new {template_name} template
        Type=Link
        URL=file:{template_file}'''
    ).lstrip('\n')

    return textwrap.dedent(new_desktop_content)


def get_new_desktop_path(template_folder, template_file, template_name=None):

    if not template_name:
        template_name = template_file.name
    new_desktop_path = template_folder / f'New-{template_name}.desktop'

    return new_desktop_path


def get_source_file_by_desktop_file(source_dir, desktop_file):
    filename = desktop_file.name
    filename = filename.lstrip('New-')
    filename = filename.replace('.desktop', '')
    return source_dir / filename

if USER_TEMPLATE_DIR == '' or KDE_DESKTOP_DIR == '':
    print('Template folder not specified. Edit the scripts top part.'
          ' Be careful, files will be overwritten without asking.')
    sys.exit(1)

user_source_folder = pathlib.Path(USER_TEMPLATE_DIR).expanduser()
kde_output_folder = pathlib.Path(KDE_DESKTOP_DIR).expanduser()

if not user_source_folder.exists():
    user_source_folder.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

if not kde_output_folder.exists():
    kde_output_folder.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

print('User Template Source:', user_source_folder)
print('KDE Settings Output:', kde_output_folder)
added_files = []
for path in user_source_folder.glob('*'):
    if not path.name.startswith('.') and path.is_file():
        new_desktop_content = get_new_desktop_content(path)
        new_desktop_path = get_new_desktop_path(kde_output_folder, path)
        if new_desktop_path.exists():
            exist = 'updated'
        else:
            exist = 'new'
        new_desktop_path.write_text(new_desktop_content)
        added_files.append(new_desktop_path)
        print(f'{exist} "{new_desktop_path}" mapped to "{path}"')

for path in kde_output_folder.glob('*.desktop'):
    source_path = get_source_file_by_desktop_file(user_source_folder, path)
    if not source_path in added_files and not source_path.exists():
        path.rename(path.as_posix() + '.bkp')
        print(f'removed "{path}" because could not find "{source_path}"')